Project #83939 - linux assignment

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magine your company is moving into a new building that is set up like a warehouse in the image to the right. There are no internal walls, it’s just one big room for everybody to work in. Chances are, the first thing the boss is going to do is build an office for privacy and to conduct meetings. The boss will have a partition set up, an internal wall to separate him from you. Next, each worker will get a cubicle in the big room with smaller partitions to separate you from the person next to you. This way everyone has their own working space.

Hard drives work the same way. The disk gets partitioned into smaller, separate pieces which can belong to different owners. In our case, Windows might own some and Linux will own others. On hard drives though, the word “partition” does not refer to the wall itself, it refers to the separated space. So we say Linux is installed “on” the first partition.